Professor Pogge, a German philosopher, is currently Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University, and Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Pogge has written extensively on political philosophy, especially on Rawls, Immanuel Kant, cosmopolitanism, and, more recently, extreme poverty. His book World Poverty and Human Rights (Polity, 2002) is widely regarded as one of the most important works on global justice. Pogge’s work has been, along with that of Charles Beitz and Henry Shue, one of the most important in the “first wave” of work on global justice. Yet what makes Pogge’s contribution to the debate on global justice and the eradication of world poverty original is his emphasis on negative duties rather than on the positive duties stressed by Beitz and Shue. According to Pogge, the global rich have a stringent duty of justice to take decisive steps toward the eradication of global poverty primarily because they have violated the negative duty not to contribute to the imposition of a global institutional order that foresee ably and avoidably renders the basic socioeconomic rights of other human beings unfulfilled, and not because they must honor a positive duty to help others in need when they can at little cost to themselves. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University with a dissertation supervised by John Rawls.